My first “contributing blogger” post is up on Brain, Child’s blog this morning. Please read and share. It’s a great magazine, and after you read my piece you can get lost for hours in all the other amazing essays there. http://www.brainchildmag.com/2015/02/my-first-tattoo/
Welcome to Day Two of my 31 day blog-a-thon! Last Friday I attended the 2013 Media Festival at Colorado State University. You can scroll down after you click that link… Read more Day Two: Juggling Art, Work and Play →
Today is September 15. Today would have been my grandmother Della’s 90th birthday, but she died when she was 76. Her husband, my grandfather, died at 67. He would have… Read more An Aging Grace →
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Dear People who design Children’s Halloween Costumes, The pumpkins are coming, the pumpkins are coming! Candy corn has replaced school supplies and your costumes have chased out garden hoses in… Read more An Open Letter to Halloween Costume Designers →
Today my little girl Moira turned nine. She is half-way to eighteen, and she is my youngest child. Nine years ago, I held her for the first time. Nine years… Read more The Half Life of Parenting and Other Things →
UPDATED: April 3, 2014 – What it looks like now. I wanted to tell all the lovely people who found this post because they too were facing a Mohs procedure… Read more Mohs better lip: lots of swelling, no more carcinoma – updated with stitches →
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I sometimes digest medical news, or the absence of it, with the metabolism of a large snake. In the past eight days I’ve spoken with Liam’s cardiologist, my dermatologist, my… Read more Indigestion . . . choking on facts and possibly taxes →
I wrote this last night but I waited to post it. I got the official call today; dermatologist was not wrong. I see the surgeon tomorrow. I’ve struggled for the… Read more Skin Deep →
